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  • 2019-09-20 (xsd:date)
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  • Are Dr. Phil and Robin McGraw Getting Divorced? (en)
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  • Even those who don't watch daytime television are generally familiar with one of its most successful and ubiquitous practitioners, psychologist Phil McGraw. Better known as Dr. Phil, McGraw and his wife, Robin McGraw, counsel millions of viewers on issues ranging from marriage and domestic abuse to addiction to weight loss on their top-rated daily program. Dr. Phil's popularity has brought him a fair share of criticism and made him the target of numerous celebrity rumors, the latter most frequently spread by the National Enquirer and its sister tabloid, who over the last few decades have published several dozen articles accusing Dr. Phil (and sometimes Robin) of various indiscretions, from minutia like being a 'ratings whore' to personal turmoil such as a 'secret divorce deal' to outright felonies like sexual and child abuse. So relentless has the National Enquirer's gossip reporting on Dr. Phil been that in 2016, he and his wife filed a $250 million libel and malicious defamation lawsuit against the National Enquirer’s parent company, American Media Inc. According to the Washington Post: The McGraws dismissed their lawsuit a few months later without providing any information about its ultimate resolution, but since then the Enquirer seems to have stopped reporting negative rumors about Dr. Phil in favor of offering sensationalist, promotional articles about guests on his show. Nonetheless, one piece of gossip-mongering that has never gone away is the claim that Dr. Phil and his wife of 43 years, the former Robin Jo Jameson, are headed for an imminent divorce — an event that, according to the Enquirer, was forestalled only due to a secret divorce deal over a supposed tell-all book authored by Robin: The Enquirer article quoted above was originally published in April 2009, but neither a Dr. Phil divorce nor the publication of a Robin McGraw-authored tell-all book has transpired in the more than 10 years since then. Although Dr. Phil continues to be dogged by divorce rumors, nothing other than tabloid reporting suggests such rumors have any substance to them. The McGraws addressed (and denied) tabloid reports of a pending divorce on their show as far back as 2008, as transcribed on the Dr. Phil website: In 2012, Dr. Phil again denounced divorce rumors from stupid tabloids, this time during an appearance on the Rachael Ray Show: As recently as September 2019, Robin posted a Happy Birthday message to Phil on Instagram, including a photograph of the two of them posing in front of the famous pop art Love sculpture, describing her husband as her forever love, and proclaiming that I love you more and more with every birthday: Obviously we cannot say with absolute certainty that any couple will not divorce at some point in the future. But although divorce rumors have swirled around the McGraws for 15 years or more, those rumors appear to be driven by nothing more than fabricated tabloid gossip, and the McGraws have expressed no interest or intent in divorcing, have vehemently denied such rumors multiple times, continue to work closely together, and present the outward appearance of a long-wedded couple who remain happy in their marriage: (en)
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